Crimean Bridge blast: What is known about the truck and its driver?

9 Oct, 2022 07:12

Crimean Bridge blast: What is known about the truck and its driver?

The man might have been unaware that the vehicle was carrying explosives, Russian media claims

Crimean Bridge blast: What is known about the truck and its driver?

On Saturday morning, the Crimean Bridge – the longest in Europe, which links the peninsula to mainland Russia over the Kerch Strait – was damaged in an explosion.

Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee said that a truck blew up as it was traveling along the 19km-long structure. CCTV videos appear to back up that conclusion.

Three people, including the driver, were killed in the blast, which temporarily halted both road and railway traffic and led to a partial collapse of the highway section of the bridge.

RT has gathered information on what is known so far.

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One Response to “Crimean Bridge blast: What is known about the truck and its driver?”

  1. ian says:

    In fact, neither the owner nor the driver may be involved. In Iraq, it was a favourite trick, to send locals who’d been recruited, in a car to keep an eye on, eg, a queue at a police recruiting station, then ring in when it got busy. Unknown to them, the phone call detonated the explosives in the boot, and changed them into a suicide bomber. All it takes is a device that can be phone activated, put it into a, eg box containing kitchen goods and arrange to have it transported. I’m pretty sure you could arrange for it to detonate at a given GPS setting.